OK, I have a confession…… we are addicted to this show!! Personally, I’m not much of a tv watcher, and would really lean more toward just not even having tv at all, especially since we cancelled HGTV and the Cooking Channel (what else IS there, worthwhile, on tv??) ~ but BF, now, that’s a different story. I once turned my back on him for a second at an appliance store,…
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My Kindergarten Girl
I’ve finally stopped crying my eyes out every single day because my baby started kindergarten….yes, I know its January, and it took me 1/2 a year….but I can finally handle posting some pics. We love her new school….her teacher….her new friends…..her exciting new experiences……I’m thrilled with the big kid she’s becoming! But I can’t help get a little sad that the past 6 years flew by so fast and wish…
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Where are the PICTURES??
This whole blog was supposed to be about progress on our little house project, since almost daily people ask me, “How’s the house coming?” I wanted to be able to point people HERE to see for themselves how hard we’re working! Well ~ I found a little home improvement contest that I want to enter, and I think we SHOULD after the 3 years of torture that we’ve lived through…
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Training them Young.
This is my little Baby A, always helping! She always wants to be right beside me, doing whatever I’m doing. I love that!! She’s already learning how to multi-task better than most men… holding a baby and unloading the dishwasher at the same time. It may make my chores take longer, but its much more fun. Hopefully….I can get her trained young so I can retire in a year or…
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The 49th Annual Azalea Trail…Coming Soon!
What is the Azalea Trail, you ask? Click here to find out more! Ever since I can remember, I have wanted to live in this neighborhood! In elementary school, my friend Chrystene lived in the house across the street from The Big Blue House, and we spent lots of hours playing in the ‘creek’ running parallel to Belmont street. I remember us taking her brother’s jam box up into the…
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My *FaBuLouS* Kitchen….Before it Was Fabulous!
I am SO proud of this room….I tore pictures out of magazines for years, and saved them, in hopes of having the 1920’s-style kitchen of my dreams someday! After living kitchen-less for 2 1/2 years (I made do with a microwave and a crock pot!), we finally finished, and I am having SO much fun cooking up a storm. I was never much into cooking before; now I’m a Cooking…
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Melissa Jane Beene Ford
Our Latest Project, the Sunroom!
OK, I’m going backwards, I know, but I’ll start with our latest project because its the one I’m most excited about….well, other than the kitchen, but only because THIS project means we are ALMOST FINISHED! For the past 2 1/2 years we’ve used our 570 square foot sunroom as a storage room! We just didn’t have the funds to tackle such a HUGE project and it took us a while…
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Welcome to the Big Blue House!
Hello friends & family! Welcome to my online journal created to keep track of our fun little project that’s been ongoing since April 2005.…remodeling our wonderful old house! Located on a corner lot in a historic neighborhood, our once-dignified home had sat vacant and crumbling for a few years before we decided to tackle this ambitious little venture. In the last two and a half years our house (aka “The…
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